Type: Regular Rulemaking
Status: Public notice provided March 14, 2025. Public comments currently being accepted through April 28, 2025.
Summary: The Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) is proposing a rulemaking action to revise existing regulations to remove redundant and duplicative provisions; streamline operational and administrative burdens for licensees and the Department; and establish minimum sanitation standards.
Specific changes include:
- Clarifying tracking and labeling of harvest batches.
- Extending the time limit for temporary events to 30 days.
- Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to a nursery.
- Allowing cultivation licensees to transfer immature plants and seeds to another cultivation premises owned by that licensee.
- Deleting the requirement to submit a pest management plan at the time of application.
- Deleting the requirement to submit electricity reporting with a renewal application and to purchase carbon offsets.
- Establishing minimum sanitation standards for licensees that handle exposed cannabis.
View the rulemaking documents
Public comments process
If you wish to comment on the proposed regulations, you must submit your comment in writing to DCC. Verbal comments cannot be accepted.
DCC Legal Affairs Division
2920 Kilgore Road
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
publiccomment@cannabis.ca.gov
Public hearing
Public hearing will take place on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The link to participate in the public hearing will be available before 9 a.m. on the day of the hearing.
